Black Widow - BCMods' Spare Server Rig

BCMods · 31 Dec 2012 at 11:01

This build will be livestreamed via Twitch (Link) on Monday 31st December at 12PM GMT.

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Hardware Specs:
Intel Pentium G860
MSI B75MA-E33
16GB Corsair Vengeance LP
1TB WD Caviar Green
1TB WD Caviar Black
250GB Seagate Barracuda 7200.10
Silverstone TJ08-E
OCZ CoreXStream 500w

BCMods · 31 Dec 2012 at 11:01

(Reserved for final photos)

BCMods · 31 Dec 2012 at 11:05

Look what I got!

BCMods · 1 Jan 2013 at 01:42

Finished!

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*Rich* · 1 Jan 2013 at 19:34

Nice little build there, like the video too haha sweet and simple.

What you using this build for?

BCMods · 5 Jan 2013 at 17:28

Cheers

A home server/HTPC

Tattysnuc · 5 Jan 2013 at 17:40

I'm fascinated to see how it performs. I presume that the hard drives are in Raid 0?

Tattysnuc · 5 Jan 2013 at 17:41

PS - why 16gb ram? I'm not aware of any HTPC software or home server software requiring/taking advantage of that much...

panyan · 5 Jan 2013 at 17:52

^Im assuming it was to do with price

Tattysnuc · 5 Jan 2013 at 20:50

panyan said:
^Im assuming it was to do with price

I did wonder as a Pentium chip seems somewhat underwhelming vs the RAM and storage, but what do I know..

BCMods · 17 Jan 2013 at 19:43

Sorry for the late reply everyone, been overwhelmed with GCSE's at the moment.

Drives aren't in RAID0 i'm afraid, i don't trust mechanical drives! xD

16GB RAM as it's also for game servers (Tekkit, Teamspeak etc). It's also super cheap atm, which was a bonus

kitkat9933 · 17 Jan 2013 at 23:06

BCMods said:
Sorry for the late reply everyone, been overwhelmed with GCSE's at the moment.

Drives aren't in RAID0 i'm afraid, i don't trust mechanical drives! xD

16GB RAM as it's also for game servers (Tekkit, Teamspeak etc). It's also super cheap atm, which was a bonus

You sure you will be able to host game servers + use it as a HTPC at same time, with that spec.

Post how well it runs

paradigm · 18 Jan 2013 at 11:47

I was expecting a Coolermaster 201B-BXT "Black Widow". I am disappoint.

"Black Widow" should refer to that case alone.